4 years ago, I was buying a "new" PC. Given the choice between the less expensive nVidia and the more expensive ATI, I stuck with the brand I had heard of (never heard of nVidia before) and went with the ATI. Wrong choice. It was an ATI Rage 64 or something, I forget, Rage LT PRO, I think it was. There was NO hardware 3D OGL acceleration, and minimal D3D. Out rolled a new DX release, and out rolls a buggy as hell uncertified driver. It took them like 10 releases to get it right, and they still didn't have hardware support. Under Linux, the situation was somewhat better - the opensource drivers used acceleration, and I got a lot better frame rates. But it would lock all IO on the box until I telnetted in and chvt'd on occasion - and sometimes it wouldn't even let me telnet!
So the point I'm trying to make is, for your own good, don't buy it. Not flamebait, but just wait until you see the EXACT CARD in the EXACT BOX you're getting running the EXACT SOFTWARE you're gonna run. For your own sake.
Actually, I don't really want to be subscribed. What I really want is to be able to go and donate $25 to/. as a "Tip Jar". Or something like "giving" subscriptions, as in paying $5 and the next 1000 ACs won't have ads, or a friend of mine won't have ads. I'd even pay a premium for that, if it went to/.... (Slashdot, dot dot dot....)
Just my $5 (I guess $0.02 doesn't work here?) --joshua
(ah and the servers are being flaky, slow, and unreliable. I guess I shoulda paid before...)
Interesting idea. Possible having us be able to select our ads? (I.E. 3/5 of the time, I want NO ads, 1/5 I want OSDN sites, 1/5 be devoted to just ThinkGeek, and 0/5 do I want DoubleClick)
There is one way that we can solve this.... I know I've been dying to try this "Lindows" stuff.... Someone upload a Lindows ISO to an FTP, it's perfectly legal under the GPL, AFAIK. But, IANAL. (Enough acronyms?)
Though in all seriousity, there have been an awful lot of mods done today... Arrite, how many editors have been whipping out modpoints today??? And, why don't I ever get them?:)
"Yes sir..? You say with tikkipdump [really tcpdump] under leeenyouks you were having a denial of service attack... can you explain that?........... ohhh a ping flood, well remove your router and uninstall linux and see if it goes away."
Does it have support for installing to ReiserFS? I'm using SuSE right now with ReiserFS, I've had power outages, X-related panics, and all sorts of crap happen to the box, and it reboots flawlessly. Now OTOH, (at least with the older versions) if I power off a RH Ext2 box hard, I have to reinstall the distro.
NOT FUN.
So, does it? Not ext3, Ext3 has been supported from a while AFAIK, but I still have vividly horrible memories of ext2, but ReiserFS.
IIRC, this is a dupe, plus it's old news. I've had the demo for about 2 or 3 months, running Trillian well (but Y! crashes), and Media Player perfectly. My only gripe is that it doesn't install those fonts into X... *envisions a world with fonts that weren't awful*
Not meant to be a troll, though it may sound that way... --jw
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TCSH on Windows XP?
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No, default OSX shell is CSH, AFAIK.
By the way, has anyone checked out MudSH? That's pretty cool. There's a demo of it running on Char.TV's telnet server.
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HEH. Long story, but I'll make it short.
4 years ago, I was buying a "new" PC. Given the choice between the less expensive nVidia and the more expensive ATI, I stuck with the brand I had heard of (never heard of nVidia before) and went with the ATI. Wrong choice. It was an ATI Rage 64 or something, I forget, Rage LT PRO, I think it was. There was NO hardware 3D OGL acceleration, and minimal D3D. Out rolled a new DX release, and out rolls a buggy as hell uncertified driver. It took them like 10 releases to get it right, and they still didn't have hardware support. Under Linux, the situation was somewhat better - the opensource drivers used acceleration, and I got a lot better frame rates. But it would lock all IO on the box until I telnetted in and chvt'd on occasion - and sometimes it wouldn't even let me telnet!
So the point I'm trying to make is, for your own good, don't buy it. Not flamebait, but just wait until you see the EXACT CARD in the EXACT BOX you're getting running the EXACT SOFTWARE you're gonna run. For your own sake.
--joshua
Actually, I don't really want to be subscribed. What I really want is to be able to go and donate $25 to /. as a "Tip Jar". Or something like "giving" subscriptions, as in paying $5 and the next 1000 ACs won't have ads, or a friend of mine won't have ads. I'd even pay a premium for that, if it went to /.... (Slashdot, dot dot dot....)
Just my $5 (I guess $0.02 doesn't work here?)
--joshua
(ah and the servers are being flaky, slow, and unreliable. I guess I shoulda paid before...)
Interesting idea. Possible having us be able to select our ads? (I.E. 3/5 of the time, I want NO ads, 1/5 I want OSDN sites, 1/5 be devoted to just ThinkGeek, and 0/5 do I want DoubleClick)
--joshua
Uh-uh. Lotsa legal issues around that, and I want my story posted while it's still NEWS, not afterwegetlegalpermissions.
/. effect if it's a week old.
But that's just MY take. I'm certain it'd reduce the
--j
http://www.siliconstrategies.com/story/OEG20020417 S0077, as linked to by the Reg article. Rehashed rehash, that's slashdot!
--j
... that kinda like DllHEL?
--j
C, the write-only language.
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There is one way that we can solve this.... I know I've been dying to try this "Lindows" stuff.... Someone upload a Lindows ISO to an FTP, it's perfectly legal under the GPL, AFAIK. But, IANAL. (Enough acronyms?)
--j
What?! Picking up white flags is not the whole game.
Some servers preserve the true CtF aspect of it: team play, grab the flag and bring it back to your side. That is IMHO the best aspect of the game.
BTW, I am porting the latest (1.8 == CVS) to Dreamcast... I'll let you guys know how it goes (especially b/c lwIP just got ported to DC.)
Laters,
The Pi-Guy == "ctty insane", usually on ducati or chardonnay.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these ideas!!!
(no, but seriously, imagine... Beowulf of Beowulfs... the übercomputer... hmmm)
--pi
${Joke-About-Natalie-Portman-Vs.-Natalie-Shahova}
--pi
Maybe those slashvertisements were real....
--j
Though in all seriousity, there have been an awful lot of mods done today... Arrite, how many editors have been whipping out modpoints today??? And, why don't I ever get them? :)
--pi
For that matter, we already had an editor devoted to that.
:)
His name is JonKatz.
--pi
And... this little sucker retails for......??
I know the dev edition is $200 which seems like an awesome price for a color PDA, but whatzit gonna cost me at Best Buy?
--j
Just to relate my story...
"Yes sir..? You say with tikkipdump [really tcpdump] under leeenyouks you were having a denial of service attack... can you explain that?........... ohhh a ping flood, well remove your router and uninstall linux and see if it goes away."
Truly braindead, you couldn't make this stuff up.
running the risk of going OT, but....
Did anyone else recognize that "abby normal" was from Young Frankenstein?
Heh,
--jw
when you bake this one... :)
--pi
Yes, my hardware is flaky. Yes, it crashes every couple of hours. Yes, I run it without a case.
But that's no excuse for flaky FS drivers.
ZZZ,
--pi
--
I could put a clever sig in here, but why?
Does it have support for installing to ReiserFS?
I'm using SuSE right now with ReiserFS, I've had power outages, X-related panics, and all sorts of crap happen to the box, and it reboots flawlessly.
Now OTOH, (at least with the older versions) if I power off a RH Ext2 box hard, I have to reinstall the distro.
NOT FUN.
So, does it? Not ext3, Ext3 has been supported from a while AFAIK, but I still have vividly horrible memories of ext2, but ReiserFS.
Thanks!
--joshua
Bernard Shit^Hfman!!! :)
--pi
IIRC, this is a dupe, plus it's old news. I've had the demo for about 2 or 3 months, running Trillian well (but Y! crashes), and Media Player perfectly. My only gripe is that it doesn't install those fonts into X... *envisions a world with fonts that weren't awful*
Not meant to be a troll, though it may sound that way...
--jw
No, default OSX shell is CSH, AFAIK.
By the way, has anyone checked out MudSH? That's pretty cool. There's a demo of it running on Char.TV's telnet server.
--jw
Windows Combatability killed it
No kidding. Whichever way you meant it, that Windows was combatting it, or that it wasn't compatible with Windows, it was true.
--joshua
They do not own it. Rather, they 0wn it. And they don't JUST 0wn IT - they 0wn j00 also!
--joshua